Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what estimate he has made of the contribution to the UK economy of the UK music industry in each of the last 10 years.

Figures published by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport as part of the Creative Industries Economic Estimates showed the Gross Value Added (GVA) of music, performing and visual arts in the UK between 2008 and 2012 (see Table 1). Due to the internationally agreed classifications on which Official Statistics depend, it is not possible to disaggregate music from the performing and visual arts further, or to produce estimates over a longer time period. DCMS will work with industry partners and the ONS in the next international revision of the SIC and SOC codes to see if music can be further disaggregated from other industry and occupational codes.

Table 1 - Gross Value Added of music, performing and visual arts between 2008 and 2012

The trade association UK Music estimates in its annual economic study, ‘Measuring Music’, that the UK music industry’s contribution to the British economy in 2013 was: GVA of £3.8bn, with GVA up 9% year-on-year (£3.5bn in 2012).